Re: Problems with xml-parse-string

[Wojciech Meyer]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Wojciech Meyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> It's fiddly to work with.
>>
>> Can you elaborate?
>
> Did you look at my code example?  Did you see how unfiddly it was?

It is data, it doesn't need to look good. Obviously you handle that
as an abstract data structure.

>
> In any case, if the problem here is that we have a different interface
> for the xml parsing already in place -- I just added xml-parse-buffer to
> xml.c as an afterthought, since it was trivial to do.  I don't care
> about xml parsing per se.  My point was to have the sloppy real-world

but I care, and many people here do care, because it is important to
got it right.

> html-parse-buffer interface available from Emacs, and we don't have any
> equivalent Emacs Lisp code available (that I know of) that is has to be
> compatible with.

Wojciech